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<td class="fp-left"><div class="fp-chapter"><a href="/2011/09/les-grenouilles-qui-cherchaient-un-roi.html">Fable précédente</a></div>
<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 1, Fable 3</span><span class="fp-text">LE GEAI ORGUEILLEUX ET LE PAON</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber I, Fabula III</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">GRAGULUS SUPERBUS ET PAVO</span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Afin de ne pas se complaire à louer le bien d'autrui,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">mais plutôt de passer sa vie selon sa condition,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Ésope nous a transmis cet exemple.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Ne gloriari libeat alienis bonis</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">suoque potius habitu vitam degere,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Aesopus nobis hoc exemplum prodidit.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Un geai, gonflé d'un orgueil inutile,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">ramassa les plumes d'un paon qui étaient tombées,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et se para avec. Puis, dédaignant les siens,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">il se mêla à une magnifique troupe de paons.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Ceux-ci arrachent alors les plumes de l'oiseau impudent,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et le mettent en fuite à coups de bec. Le geai bien puni,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">se mit alors à revenir affligé vers ceux de sa propre espèce.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Mais repoussé par eux, il dut aussi supporter ce triste affront.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Un de ceux qu'il avait auparavant regardé avec mépris, lui dit alors&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;Si tu t'étais satisfait de notre demeure,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et avais voulu accepter ce que la nature t'avait donné,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">tu aurais eu ni à subir leur affront,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">ni le malheur d'essuyer notre refus.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Tumens inani gragulus superbia</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">pennas pavoni quae <span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n67/mode/1up">p.4</a>]</span> deciderant sustulit</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">seque exornavit. Deinde contemnens suos,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">inmiscuit se pavonum formoso gregi.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Illi impudenti pennas eripiunt avi</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">fugantque rostris. Male multatus gragulus</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">redire <span class="fp-correction" title="merens  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">moerens</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="moerens  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">merens</span></span> coepit ad proprium genus ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">A quo repulsus tristem sustinuit <span class="fp-correction" title="noticiam  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">notam</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="notam  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">noticiam</span></span>.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Tum quidam ex illis quos prius despexerat&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;Contentus nostris si fuisses sedibus</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et quod natura dederat voluisses pati,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">nec illam expertus esses contumeliam,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">nec hanc repulsam tua sentiret calamitas.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><div class="fp-chapter"><a href="/2011/09/les-grenouilles-qui-cherchaient-un-roi.html">Fable précédente</a></div></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. Corne, 5/11/2011</div>
<div class="fp-la-fontaine">Lire la fable de La Fontaine&nbsp;: <a href="http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Geai_par%C3%A9_des_plumes_du_Paon">Le Geai paré des plumes du Paon</a></div>
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